Talking the walk & walking the talk : a rhetoric of rhythm /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Verbal arts: studies in poetics
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=11083125 |
Table of Contents:
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- CHAPTER ONE: STARTING OUT
- 1. Prologue & Preamble
- 2. Talking & Walking
- 3. Rhythm & Meter
- 4. Scansion & Breathing (Cæsura, Beat, Walking Poems)
- 5. Kinesiology & Prosody (Canine Walkies, Galloping Verse, Lame Metrics)
- 6. Writing & Dancing
- 7. Letting the Ducks Out
- CHAPTER TWO: WALKING VOICES
- 1. "And God went, 'Where are you'?" in the Bible's In The Beginning
- 2. The Walking Bass in Monteverdi's My Foot Slips Again [1624]
- 3. "I can Scarcely Move or Draw my Breath" in Purcell's King Arthur [1691]
- CHAPTER THREE: TRIPS OF THE TONGUE IN HAMLET [1600]
- 1. Crawl
- 2. Pause
- 3. Mobility
- 4. Claudication
- 5. Will he Nill he
- 6. Triplex
- CHAPTER FOUR: TALKING CURES
- 1. "Walking and Talking at the Same Time": Wordsworth's Dilation (Pedestrianism, Bumming, Hopping & Ambling)
- 2. "Slips of the Tongue": Freud's Hinking (Hysterical Narratives, Limping Iambics)
- CHAPTER FIVE: WALKIE TALKIES
- 1. Tin Man's "Can Can Can" in The Wizard of Oz [1939]
- 2. Foghorn Leghorn's "Walkie Talkie" in Walky Talky Hawky [1946]
- 3. Lina Lamont's "Pipes and Stems" in Singin' in the Rain [1952]
- 4. L.B. Jeffries' "Totter" in Rear Window [1954]
- CHAPTER SIX: MARCHING & HEILING IN THE GREAT DICTATOR [1940]
- 1. Powerful Crowds
- 2. Goose Steps
- 3. Macaronic Speeches
- 4. Anatine Quacks
- 5. Mind the Music
- CHAPTER SEVEN: SIGN LANGUAGES
- 1. Ma Bell's "Let your Fingers do the Walking" in The Yellow Pages [1962]
- 2. Dorothy Miles' Body-Sign Language in Gestures [1976]
- CHAPTER EIGHT: POSTAMBLE & EPILOGUE
- 1. Reduplication
- 2. Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
- 3. The Finish Line
- 4. A Walking Solution
- BACK MATTER
- 1. Illustrations (List)
- 2. Abbreviations.